Executive Assistant to the CEO

Aston Community Education Trust, Sheffield, S26 2BH

2 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  19 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £39,152.00 - £41,771.00 Annually (FTE) There is also the option to work term time only - salary for term time would be £34,634 - £36,951

Executive Assistant to the CEO job summary

We are seeking to appoint an exceptional and proactive Executive Assistant to act as a trusted partner to our Chief Executive Officer.

This newly created role will support strategic leadership across the Trust and play a significant part in ensuring effective leadership, governance, communication, and organisational planning. You will work at the heart of our Trust, supporting the CEO and Executive Team with professionalism, discretion and executive presence.

This is a senior role, and we are looking for an individual who can anticipate needs, exercise sound judgement, maintain executive discipline and flow, and enable the CEO to remain focused on the most strategically important matters.

The successful candidate will:

• Provide professional, comprehensive and confidential support to the CEO
• Proactively manage and filter communications, ensuring the CEO’s time is protected and focused on high-value priorities
• Draft high-quality communications, briefings, presentations & reports on behalf of the CEO
• Forward-plan Trust activity and ensure executive systems run smoothly
• Work closely with the Governance Lead to coordinate Board and committee cycles
• Represent the CEO with confidence, integrity and professionalism
• Build positive relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Support Trust-wide priorities and events

The successful candidate will undertake the Forum Strategy Executive Assistant programme, supporting their development as a high-impact executive professional.

You will be based at ACET House; however, the role may involve working at other sites or academies within the Trust.

Safeguarding

ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.

It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Equality

ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.

We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Aston Community Education Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/aston-community-education-trust

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